Sunday morning read

Happy  Mother’s Day, fellow-mothers. I know… “fellow”  doesn’t strike quite the right note. But take it in the broad sense. Here in South Canton, it’s a lovely morning. The sun is coming up through the woods, back-lighting the pale green maple blossoms, the phoebe is hollering and the daffodils are happy. Here are some of my plans for the day..we got a head start at the greenhouse yesterday…

Waters are stabilizing, generally going down from the record high levels we saw as the work week closed.

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise speculates on whether this was the worst flood ever, or not.

There are ups and downs still around Plattsburgh, The Press Republican reports –worse in some areas, better in others, with more evacuations, pets included, yesterday.

There’s a great slideshow and a story on winners and losers in the in the natural world from the floooding in this morning’s Burlington Free Press.

Lots more flood reporting, from various angles, in all these papers. Meanwhile, a weird drop in the Sacandaga reservoir is prompting warnings of high water downstream in the Hudson, according to the Glens Falls Post Star.

The Waterrtown Daily Times is polling readers on what to do about undocumented farm workers: guest worker permits? raid the farms? or cut unemployment drastically to force more Americans back into those jobs?